Hi Derek,
how cool, that it is the same TV show!
Did you test your ferritin or transferrin too? Or just iron/hemoglobin?
Yes, there are quite a few people from Scandinavia who have genetic adaptation that makes them absorb iron very well.. too well. I have not tested my genetics but my gut feeling says I do should be careful with iron for a while now.. and yes, you nailed it - it is too little of copper and maybe other minerals that makes it an issue. To eat mainly muscle meat for longer periods might make these imbalances. I have been looking on the nutrient profile on seafood/meat/ many other foods and seafood seems to have a really nice balance to me. Less iron and more copper. Copper is needed to mobilize the iron in the blood so it does not get stored in organs excessively....
I guess you are doing great because you are eating the whole sheep, all of it. That is how it should be done long term, to not get any imbalances! Muscle meat mainly, is not a good idea I guess.. for many of us at least.
I just got my blood donation card yesterday, and the letter with it told me, they are very happy me donating blood further
I did load up on caviar, fish head smoothies, raw wild salmon, raw pastured eggyolks, and went to the UVB tanning salon, did a redlight session and naked on the terrace session before going to donate blood.. haha.. Told it all to the nurse who took my blood, and we laughed soooo much.. oh man it was really funny!! She said she is going to mark my blood bag with and x, and write that this blood is filled with caviar and sunlight...haha.. She thought it was a hilarious idea! And my bag filled real fast, 4 minutes for 535 ml blood. So it was working
I am loking at issues my siblings have (I have 14 to lots to look at
) and I have a feeling there could be some excess iron issues... in the family. Several siblings are very sensitive to nnEMF too, EMF toleration goes worse with too much iron.
I have a feeling my liver has stored too much iron because since this fall I have a mild discomfort feeling in my liver area on and off. It feels a little like it is stressed, and I feel it more when I vacuum clean a lot! I do housekeeping at the home of 2 vets(been there for 6 years, it is my second job) I feel the electric/magnetic radiation somehow irritates my liver together with mold issues they have in the house.. I guess. Also if I eat rancid brazil nuts.. haha. I can feel my liver. I know bad idea! My liver enzymes all come back pefrectly fine, all my bloodwork was great. So it is really weird, my B12 was really high, HDL was really good/high, etc. I do feel great except of this slight liver discomfort once in a while.. when I do not live/eat optimally.
Sometimes I think if it is somehow psychological too.. I got pretty bad traumatized from my last relationship that lasted about 2 years, with a covert narcissist. I had no idea something like that excisted... It is over a year since he left me last time and for good (he left me and came back several times) and I have worked on healing a lot, and I feel sooo much better! But still it did was a real deep cut in my heart.... Felt like going through all that aged me like.. 10 years. But I am reversing the damage slowly
After all I am a warrior
Yeah please PM me and tell more about what you know about these iron issue Derek! I am alays hungry for knowing more.....